Ha....
It's the same with Steam. I have to regularly check in with Steam via email authentication every week because I have 2 PCs logged onto Steam in different places about 50 miles apart.
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Nintendo NA: We are unable to guarantee cloud saves will be retained after canceling
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It's the same with Steam. I have to regularly check in with Steam via email authentication every week because I have 2 PCs logged onto Steam in different places about 50 miles apart.
On the positive side, the Family group rules are really, really good. It seems you can add and remove members at will and that it supports people being in one group from different countries.
And this is why Nintendo will get away with their fucking joke of a service which does nothing but lock standard features behind a paywall. Because people will still buy it.
Jesus it gets worse.
So how can Valve do it?
They don't have a cloud computing business. Or Office 365.
It's amazing how bad of a job everyone else seems to do with cloud storage.
For comparisons sake, my house has 3 Xbox Ones between me and my housemates. If i want to play on their console, all I do is log in and start a game and my save file is auto downloaded in the background.
I love the Switch but I can't help but wonder how much disappointment the save system is going to cause to the casual fan
For comparisons sake, my house has 3 Xbox Ones between me and my housemates. If i want to play on their console, all I do is log in and start a game and my save file is auto downloaded in the background.
I love the Switch but I can't help but wonder how much disappointment the save system is going to cause to the casual fan
So lets do a quick run-down of Nintendos save back up Options
Free back up - nope
Local back up - nope
Compatibility with all games - nope
Holding my back ups hostage - yes
If I didn't own a switch and want to backup my game saves this would be so ridiculous it'd be funny.
Free back up - nope
Local back up - nope
Compatibility with all games - nope
Holding my back ups hostage - yes
If I didn't own a switch and want to backup my game saves this would be so ridiculous it'd be funny.
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actually, my friend didn't have PS+ for way more than 6 months and when he finally checked his still was still saved.
There are others on forums that say Sony kept their stuff for a year after PS+ expired.
Having said that, official word is still 6 months.
You don't have a choice.
This is Nintendo's only monopolistic opportunity in the ecosystem.
I feel like this is Nintendo of the 1990's dominance.
2 years from now Nintendo is going to reveal this was a social experiment to see how much shit they could get away with while still receiving money. There isn't a single good thing about their online service, so this has to be deliberate. Looking forward to the results of this experiment, hopefully they'll give everyone their money back once it's over.
Because Nintendo does not research how other on-line services are structured.
Devs from the WiiU time actually said that Nintendo send them emails stating that ~ "they should not refer to the functionality of other gaming on-line services because they do not know about them".
They work in their own bubble.
Wow. I'm honestly more annoyed about this than losing cloud saves.
...So you just start paying then upload saves again.
The only way this is truly bad is a case where your subscription lapses and you destroy your Switch in the time it takes you to realise you haven't renewed. How many people is that realistically going to happen to?
The only way this is truly bad is a case where your subscription lapses and you destroy your Switch in the time it takes you to realise you haven't renewed. How many people is that realistically going to happen to?
So what are you trying to tell me is that I will pay for a service where I will get something I've got for free before plus other "service" that I don't give a damn about, is that right ?
They don't delete the saves off your switch just the copies of them in the cloud. Seems some of you are taking it that way.
And the way they described the process this isn't a method of freeing up storage on your switch so there won't be a discrepancy between what is on your switch and what is in the cloud. It is literally just an auto backup service.
And the way they described the process this isn't a method of freeing up storage on your switch so there won't be a discrepancy between what is on your switch and what is in the cloud. It is literally just an auto backup service.
GOG and Valve both offer cloud saves.
They don't have Office 365 or any other large cloud storage business outside of their store.
You're gonna see it, if you haven't already.
Nintendo is so, so eating shit with this kind of stance.
Well, you don't have to pay for it. Just #yolo your Switch. :D /s
The words Nintendo and Online are just incompatible.
They can't seem to get anything right when it comes to this service. As if the paltry offering wasn't bad enough, this is just insulting.
They can't seem to get anything right when it comes to this service. As if the paltry offering wasn't bad enough, this is just insulting.
Yeah they aren't getting a penny from me for this dumpster fire of an online service. My switch is now a single player/ local multiplayer machine.
Unless you own the games digitally on your account and your son/daughter wants to play it on their switch, thats something that the other consoles do just fine
I mean, Valve's whole business is basically built on a cloud foundation, that's all of what the whole Steam service is even, publishing gigabytes upon gigabytes upon gigabytes times gazillion of data online and letting millions upon millions of users download them at will, expanding them to a few additional megabytes per game per user for the save files doesn't seem out of the ordinary, it's not like they only have just about enough cloud storage space for the available catalogue of games when that keeps expanding by the hour too...
I am astounded that we won't know which games will support cloud saves and which will require this for online play, until the service launches. That's really cutting it close.
Yeah, I don't know what people expected.
Nintendo's interactions with online has been nothing short of abysmal, ever since their first try. You can still witness it today with their trash tier voice chat option. They just...don't know better.
I'm paying for it, but I expected nothing more than what we already have, so the NES games are just a plus to my capability of playing games like Splat 2/MK8DX/Diablo3/MHGU online.
Nintendo and internet = you should not expect anything with them in this regard, ever. :lol
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Right? Let's just hope the new Online Service will be a complete fail and they will rethink it.
Because Nintendo is greedy and backwards and want to milk people for money, more so than other companies. Sony should not put cloud saves behind paywall either.
Are some people under the wrong impression that cloud saving means your saves are only in the cloud!?!? Cause that's what I'm getting from some people here. Cloud Saves are backups. The saves still exist on your system. So if you membership drops you still have them on you system and they'll just get reuploaded when you sign back up!
Unless you're in the habit of letting your systems gets damaged over and over again you shouldn't really be worried about losing your saves. Being able to back them up locally of course would be good and should be allowed since all past Nintendo systems allowed it but they decided not to and I'd really like to know their reason behind this. That said be annoyed but don't try painting this as something it isn't. You aren't losing anything. Nothing is being held hostage. Etc.
Unless you're in the habit of letting your systems gets damaged over and over again you shouldn't really be worried about losing your saves. Being able to back them up locally of course would be good and should be allowed since all past Nintendo systems allowed it but they decided not to and I'd really like to know their reason behind this. That said be annoyed but don't try painting this as something it isn't. You aren't losing anything. Nothing is being held hostage. Etc.
That's just mean as hell, especially for Nintendo. I'd expect this type of thing if maybe someone like Activision had a console.
But can you switch from one family to another and maintain your saves?